Computer-aided materials selection during structural design / / Committee on Application of Expert Systems to Materials Selection During Structural Design, National Materials Advisory Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811520003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1995
• ISBN: 0-309-17665-4; 0-309-58767-0; 0-585-03075-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (84 p.)
• Disciplina: 624.1/7
• Soggetti: Structural design - Data processing; Materials - Data processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "NMAB-467."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-43).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Computer-Aided Materials Selection During Structural Design""; ""Copyright""; ""Abstract""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""VISION OF A COMPUTER-AIDED MATERIALS SELECTION SYSTEM""; ""STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING BARRIERS""; ""Database and Knowledge-Base Barriers""; ""Structural Design Modeling Technology Barriers""; ""GENERAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""BENEFITS""; ""DEFINITIONS""; ""STUDY OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE""; ""2 Materials Selection in Structural Design""; ""CONCURRENT ENGINEERING AND DESIGN ORGANIZATION""; ""MATERIALS SELECTION DURING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN""""SUMMARY OF MATERIALS INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS IN DESIGN""; ""3 Enhancing the Materials Selection Process in Design: A Vision""; ""INTEGRATED ENGINEERING SUPPORT IN INTEGRATED ENTERPRISES""; ""SUPPORTING STRATEGIC MATERIAL DECISIONS""; ""SUPPORTING ROUTINE MATERIAL DECISIONS""; ""SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE MATERIALS SELECTION IN DESIGN""; ""SUMMARY""; ""4 Information Technologies Pertinent to the Materials Selection Process""; ""DATABASES AND KNOWLEDGE BASES""; ""Levels of Representation""; ; ""Issues Concerning Knowledge-Base Development""; ""Definition of Knowledge Bases""""Development of Knowledge Bases""; ""Construction of Knowledge Bases""; ""Issues Concerning Database Development""; ""MODELING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS""; ""Geometric Reasoning""; ""Process Modeling""; ""Modeling of Abstraction of Downstream Constraints""; ""Measurement Modeling""; ""Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation""; ""Damage-Tolerant Design""; ""Probability of Detection""; ""Issues Concerning Implementing Modeling and Analysis Systems""; ""5 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING BARRIERS""; ""Database and Knowledge-Base Barriers""""Structural Design Modeling Technology Barriers""; ""GENERAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms""; ""Appendix B: Case Studies Reviewed by the Committee""; ""Appendix C: Review of Selected Knowledge-Representation Techniques and Tools""; ""CASE-BASED REASONING""; ""CONSTRAINT-BASED REASONING""; ""ACTIVE DATA DICTIONARIES""; ""DATABASES""; ""FUZZY LOGIC""; ""GEOMETRIC AND MICROSTRUCTURAL INFORMATION REPRESENTATION""; ""HYPERDOCUMENTS""; ""MACHINE LEARNING""; ""MATHEMATICAL RELATIONS""; ""NEURAL NETWORKS""""OBJECTS AND TAXONOMIES""; ""REASONING WITH UNCERTAINTY""; ""RULE-BASED REASONING""; ""SPATIAL SYNTHESIS AND LAYOUT""; ""STRUCTURE SELECTION""; ""TRUTH MAINTENANCE""; ""Appendix D: Knowledge-Based Integrated Design System""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE CASE STUDY""; ""Appendix E: An Intelligent Knowledge System for Selection of Materials for Critical Aerospace Applications""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""VISION OF THE SYSTEM""; ""TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDED IN THE SYSTEM""; ""Conceptual Model of an Intelligent-Knowledge-System""; ""IKSMAT Architecture and Operating Capabilities""; ""STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT AND BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION""